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Title: Stories for little children
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Harriman, Susan S., comp
Subjects: Children's stories
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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l see the shoemaker andhave him make you another shoe. 279 STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN Then Kit and Kat hugged her and said good-night, and popped off to sleep before you couldwink your eyes. MARKET DAY WITH FATHER One afternoon Kit and Kat were playingaround the kitchen doorstep, while theirMother sat on a bench by the door, peelingsome onions for supper. It was not yet supper-time, but Vrouw Vedder was always ahead ofthe clock with the work. Kit and Kat had a pan of water and wereteaching their ducklings to swim. They eachhad one little fat duckling of their very own.The ducklings squawked when Kit lifted themover the edge of the pan into the water. Dont do that, Kit, said Kat. Theducklings dont like it. You did nt like itwhen you fell into the water, did you? But Im not a duck, said Kit. Well, anyway, theyre tired and want togo to their mother, said Kat. Lets dosomething else! Ill tell you what! Lets goout to the garden and help Father get the boatloaded for market. 280 KIT AND KAT
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All right, said Kit. May we, Mother?: Yes, said Vrouw Vedder; and you may ask Father if he will take you to market with 281 STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN him to-morrow if its fair. Tell him I said youcould ask. Oh, goody, goody! said Kit and Kat, bothat once; and they ran as fast as their woodenshoes would take them out into the garden. They found their father cutting cabbagesand gathering them into piles. He was stop-ping to light his pipe, when they reachedhim. O Father! said Kit and Kat both to-gether. May we go on the boat to marketwith you to-morrow morning? Mother saidwe might ask! Father Vedder blew two puffs from his pipewithout answering. Well help you load the boat, said Kit. Yes, said Kat, I can carry a cabbage. I can carry two, said Kit. Well bothbe good, said Kat. Very well, said Father, at last. Wellsee how you work! And to-morrow morning,if its fair, Ill see! But you must go to bedearly to-night, because you 11 have to get upvery early in the morning, if you go with me!No

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